Includes the audio and full transcript. Really fascinating and this is - let me add - something I've been experimenting with lately. It works!
Reboot.
Edison did the same thing with a ball. He’d sit in his chair with his arm suspended at his side, hand holding a ball . When the ball dropped, he would awaken, refreshed. Don’t do this while driving!
Power naps just work. Going into a power nap with a problem that needs to be solved almost always presents a solution that wakes you up.
He referred to his creative method as “Critical Paranoia” and used it to make objects in some of his paintings come together as a face. He wrote a novel during his war years in exile in New York, an apology for his previous pro-fascist stance during the Spanish Civil War called “Hidden Faces”. One of his creative tricks was to sit in a chair with a sheet of paper between his thumb and forefinger for a period until he began to doze off. As slumber caused his hand to relax and the paper to slip to the floor, he would awaken and use the images in his mind during this “twilight” in his paintings. He could paint two images of the same scene from slightly different positions so that when viewed in a stereopticon, rendered the image in 3-D. The boy was a serious genius.
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